Please read and reflect on these
for they are very pertinent to our current situation.

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they
can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great
point is to bring them the real facts."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that
ever has."
-- Margaret Mead
"Corporations have been enthroned An era of corruption in high
places will follow and the money power will endeavor to
prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people
. . until wealth is aggregated in a few hands . . . and the
Republic is destroyed."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women)
to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"We are apt to close our eyes against a painful truth."
-- Patrick Henry
"The exact contrary of what is generally believed
is often the truth."
-- Jean de la Bruyère
"On the altar of God, I pledge undying hostility to any
government restrictions on the free minds of the people."
-- Thomas Jefferson - The favored quote at the highest point
in the Rotunda at the Jefferson Memorial.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
"When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be
in the guise of fighting a foreign foe."
-- James Madison
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to
restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to
restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our
lives and interests."
-- Patrick Henry